Sunday, November 4, 2012

Old Fart Again?

I know, I know, Old Fart talking here... but look at these 2 covers. God help us if you could actually see what was going on like in the old days, right? Not saying that what's going on isn't kind of SILLY, mind you, but at least you can tell what it IS. Now in the new one, of course you can see Wonder Woman's whole ass since her body is twisted just for that reason... but what ever happened to the idea of something called "composition"??? Criminey... How many characters are in that block of crap above Batman... and what is Batman DOING anyway? And check how Superman is riding on... on... I guess that might be Green Lantern's arm. Where the rest of him is I'm not sure. Also Wonder Woman's head is resting against Superman's back and his fist is tapping that big silver-green guy-thing on the head... Oy. I guess that must be "Super Amazo" with his million made up muscles. Feh.

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Pete Von Sholly's storyboards for over 100 feature films include Dinotasia, Mars Attacks!, James and the Giant Peach, Darkman, The Mask, The Shawshank Redemption, The Blob, Nightmare on Elm Street III and IV, The Waterdance, The Green Mile, Click, The Mist and more. Pete has written and illustrated four graphic novels: Morbid, Morbid Volume 2 and Extremely Weird Stories, (Dark Horse Comics) and SPINECRAWLER from IDW- plus three satiric magazines for TwoMorrows, Crazy Hip Groovy Go Go Way Out Monsters (2 issues) and Comic Book Nerd which parodies comics fans and fanzines. Self-published titles from Vonshollywood Press include Sergeanstein, Dinosaur Circus and Here Doesn't Come the Flying F-ck. UPDATE- Pete has a pile of books coming next year (and later this one) from PS Publications including a collection of his gag cartoons, Fabulous Fictioneers: A History of the Incredible, several illustrated versions of classic Lovecraft stories and covers for Jess Nevins’ The Encyclopedia of Pulp Heroes and also a cover for S.T. Joshi’s novel The Assaults of Chaos from Hippocampus. His epic foldout mural Pete Von Sholly’s History Of Monsters is forthcoming from Abrams as well